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How To: Add a Date / Time to the Page
This procedure demonstrates adding a dynamic date / time to the page, positioning it, and removing unwanted objects to customize the page layout.
Adding the Date / Time
- Enable Edit Mode (if not already active) to allow modification of the page layout.
- On the Object Design menu tap the Add icon
. - In the Graphic dialog select Text from the Add dialog.
- In the Action on Tap dialog, select Default
- The default Text object is placed on the screen, enclosed in a bounding box indicating it is selected.
- While the Text object is highlighted, from the Object Design Menu (top) select Options icon (gear)
- In the Object Options Edit dialog, select Text
- The Text format dialog opens, select Date/Time which causes the default MMM d, yyyy to be entered in the dialog's input line.
- Replace the default symbols with the characters desired to represent the day, month, date, 12/24 hour time, hour, minute, time zone. See the table below:
^ Grouping ^ Symbol ^ Presentation ^ Description ^
| Month | M | Month | Month in year (e.g., July; 07) |
| L | Month | Standalone month in year | |
| Date | d | Number | Day in month |
| E | Text | Day name in week (e.g., Tuesday) | |
| u | Number | Day number of week (1 = Monday, …, 7 = Sunday) | |
| Year | y | Year | Year (e.g., 1996; 96) |
| Y | Year | Week year | |
| Time: 24/12hr | H | Number | Hour in day (0-23) |
| k | Number | Hour in day (1-24) | |
| K | Number | Hour in am/pm (0-11) | |
| h | Number | Hour in am/pm (1-12) | |
| Minute | m | Number | Minute in hour |
| Second | s | Number | Second in minute |
| S | Number | Millisecond | |
| AM/PM | a | Text | Am/pm marker |
| Time Zone | z | General time zone | Pacific Standard Time; PST |
| Z | RFC 822 time zone | -0800 | |
| X | ISO 8601 time zone | -08; -0800; Z |
- Pattern Examples
* To achieve the format Thursday - April 9, 2026 GMT, you would use the following patterns: - Standard Long Form: EEEE - MMMM d, yyyy z - Abreviated Form: E - MMM d, yyyy z
- Data Source
- For the full list of symbols, including week-in-month, era markers, and specific localization behavior, please refer to the official documentation:
- Android Developer Reference: SimpleDateFormat)) to change the default to the time and or date format desired.
- Select OK to save and return to the page with the object highlighted.
- Drag the date and/or tije to the desired location on the page.
- Optional: Resize the shortcut by dragging the handles located on the corners of the bounding box.
Removing an Existing Object
- Select the object to be removed by tap and hold it.
- Select the Delete icon
from the Object Design menu.- Confirm the action in the Remove selections? dialog.
- The object is removed from the page, leaving the space available for the new shortcut.
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